Studies in Arab history : the Antonius lectures, 1978-87
London : Macmillan; St. Anthony's College; World of Islam Festival Trust, 1990. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #390275
ISBN: 0333523482
Series: St. Anthony's/Macmillan series. Physical description: 189 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Contents: On the origin and development of the college in Islam and the West. 1976 / George Makdisi -- The Arab Awakening forty years after. 1977 / Albert Hourani -- The Ottoman conquest and the development of the great Arab towns. 1978 / André Raymond -- Muhammad Ali and Palmerston. 1979 / Afaf Marsot -- George Antonius, Palestine and the 1930s. 1981 / Thomas Hodgkin -- Cairo memories. 1982 / Magdi Wahba -- Mouths of the sevenfold Nile : English fiction and modern Egypt. 1984 / Mahmud Manzalaoui -- The meaning of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. 1985 / Oleg Grabar -- Space, holiness and time : Palestine in the classical Arab centuries. 1986 / Tarif Khalidi -- Orientalism again. 1987 / Norman Daniels. Subjects: Social history; Arab countries History; Arab countries; Arabian Peninsula History; Arab countries History; Arabia, history.
Price: €125.00